As the new year approaches, it’s the perfect time to explore the latest interior design colour trends for 2019—offering inspiration to transform your home interior like a seasoned interior designer. Dulux has unveiled its carefully curated colour palettes for 2019, each designed to bring wellness, rejuvenation, and environmental consciousness into your living spaces. These palettes are more than just colour combinations—they represent a fusion of design, nature, and individuality, setting the tone for the year ahead.
The four distinct color palettes, meticulously crafted by Dulux Colour and Communications Manager Andrea Lucena-Orr and trend forecaster Bree Leech, reflect a deep understanding of global design movements and cultural shifts. Drawing from extensive international research and insights from the world-renowned Colour Marketing Group, this collection encapsulates the essence of modern living. The palettes are inspired by key global influences, including wellness trends, the importance of self-care, and a growing environmental awareness—all essential elements in home interior design today.
“Understanding what’s on people’s minds, how design and color trends are evolving, and the technical advancements in pigments are crucial to the process,” explains Andrea Lucena-Orr. Observations from Milan’s prestigious Salone del Mobile also played a significant role in shaping the collection, ensuring it aligns with cutting-edge design trends.
These palettes are designed to inspire a wide range of effects, from subtle transformations to bold statements, offering homeowners and interior designers alike the tools to create spaces that reflect individuality and harmony with the natural world. With influences ranging from technology and the information age to the beauty of the environment, these colours celebrate our past, embrace the present, and look toward a sustainable future—making them an essential guide for anyone passionate about home interior design.
We are now taking a considered approach to the objects we use, to repair our relationship with nature and the world around us to ensure a positive impact is created. The Repair palette takes its cues from our need to examine our consumption and waste, favouring vintage, sustainable, repurposed and recyclable products. Comprising neutrals alongside dirty greens, yellow and earthy hues of cinnamon and sienna, Repair’s colours exude warmth and a vintage-feel.
Craving simplicity, silence and a disconnection from screentime. In our search for wellness and ‘wholeself’ we look to clear the mental clutter by making our homes our temple with a calming, distraction-free zone. With an overwhelming need to pare pack, digitally-detox and mono-task, rather than multi-task in our busy lives, when at home, the Wholeself palette celebrates minimalism through undulating forms. It also details sumptuous texture and block colour of cosy pinks, offset against warm neutrals, golds and mauve-greys.
With a focus on craftsmanship and an improvement in traditional skills, classic forms are envisaged and combined in modern and contemporary surroundings. The result is a nod to the elegant past and present, combining eclectic patterns and block colour. The Legacy palette features saturated colour in warm hues of pale pinks, lilacs and mauves, with accents of red, blue and green to punctuate the scheme.
Imperfections are celebrated as unique, and customisation to craft bespoke products is allowing us to express ourselves, rather than settle for someone else’s version. The Identity palette is all about bold experimentation combining block colour, clashing patterns, texture and mixing gloss levels, resulting in an ‘anything goes’ look that is playful, optimistic and youthful. Pale colours are a base for unusual combinations of saturated blue, purple and oranges.
